also a debt ceiling alarm bell from the bipartisan policy center saying the treasury department's going to run out of room on the debt ceiling earlier than we thought. february 15th, they say. that's the "x" date when we can't pay all of our bills, when we literally only have that date $9 billion coming in, and we have $52 billion in bills. imagine that in your own household. if you had $9 billion coming in and $52 million going out. when you look at it, it's staggering. i think we have a chart on the left. that's how much daily catch flow analysis, that means how much on the left, $9 billion is coming in. look at all the bills on the right we have to play, interest on the debt, $30 billion, we only are bringing in $9 billion a day on february 15th, but we have $30 billion in debt payments. how about irs refunds because it is, of course, tax season. federal salaries and benefits, $3.5 million, military active pay, medicare/medicaid, defense, food/hud/welfare/unemployment, other spending. that's how unbalanced it is. that's why they say we can't live like this anymore. the fight about ho